Hey! I suffer with Anxiety, OCD and depression. I'm really struggling with my OCD, I feel like I need to wash my hands more, I'm biting my nails down as far as I can and I feel like I constantly need to be touching things that make me cringe such as carpets with both hands and i can't cope with it because it's every minute. The main thing I have to do is grind all my nails on the carpet and I get intrusive thoughts to do this every minute and it’s really making me upset. Does anyone else get this? Is there any advice anyone has?

I completely sympathise with you, I have been through the same. Time will make it better, just try and add on a few minutes each time you feel the urge to do something

I have anxiety and harm ocd so slightly different however I would really recommend trying to control your urges / compulsions! They only make the ocd stronger! Also try exposure (so when you feel the need to wash your hands or something, really try not to - or if you can’t for now, try and wait say 10 minutes longer than you usually would? ) for me my compulsions are googling things for reassurance so I’m really trying hard to wait before I do or not do it at all. It’s gonna take time but just remember reacting to the intrusive thoughts and then doing the compulsions is like feeding the ocd ‘monster’

Thank you for your reply, it’s just really hard because when I feel I really need to do it, I’ll do it, then need to do it again a minute later. I’m on medication for it but it’s not helping so I might go and see my doctor

I've totally gotten what you are talking about, where you are feeling urges to do things you don't want to, and then getting sensory intrusive thoughts related to it. I get a thing like that where I hate the feeling of wool on my teeth, like when you bite a mitten, but I have to do it, and the feeling and the squeaky feeling gives me horrible shivers because of how much I hate it, but I have to do it. It's really hard - hang in there, ride it out. You will last longer than the thoughts.

I do that too when I’m wearing jumpers that squeak if you bite them :(